Authors Note: My auntie died on Thursday. So to prevent myself from having a mental breakdown I am typing. Honestly I'm feeling quite broken and tired lately. Yet I keep typing because it continues makes me feel so much better and stops me from losing it. On a happier not stuff is happening in this chapter 'kinda':P The chapters a little shorter then usual but i had to end it where i did becuase the next chapter is going to jump quite far ahead.
Whats been posted so far for this story is about half way in to what i have already typed out, but I add a ton when i edit so we still have lots more story to come. ^_^ This story is my baby so I promise it won't be given up on. But ya I have a funeral tuseday to go too so the next chapter might be a while. Hope everyone doesn't mind too much.
A New Life
Chapter 5 - Memories
Karkat looked out the window to see the strange new world that they were now in. He turned to look at John who was currently sitting in the computer chair now conversing with Terezi. Karkat found it strange that John seemed to know what he needed to do during the game. He knew that if it wasn't for John then they could be dead right now. They had just come extremely close to dying; hell he could see the meteor through the window heading right for Johns hive before they had been transported to this world. While he was thinking he heard a loud banging noise and looked around the hive, "WHAT THE FUCK WAS THAT?"
John sighed before a few laughs escaped his mouth, "Terezi must be doing something. She won't tell me what it is exactly that she is doing though, so I guess we're going to have to go take a look. Hopefully she isn't destroying my hive."
John stood up and headed for the door to his room. Karkat followed closely behind him also curious about what that noise could be. When they got to the roof of Johns hive they could finally figure out what the female troll had been doing. John saw the platforms built above his hive and a picture that seemed eerily familiar flashed before his eyes. He grabbed his head as a slight pain came with the picture. When the picture finally disappeared he realized that Karkat was right beside him worried, "John?"
John shook his head in an attempt to get rid of the dizziness he was feeling afterwards, "It was nothing."
Karkat gave him a very suspicious looked before sighing and just letting all the questions he had go. He knew that if John wasn't going to tell him the truth then he wouldn't push the subject. He turned and walked back in to Johns hive so that he could message Terezi. John just looked back up at the structure now above him. He didn't know what that picture had been; he had never seen that world before. He would remember if he had ever been to a place so beautiful so he was sure he'd never seen it, yet it felt extremely familiar to him. The welcoming blue that was everywhere in that world made him feel welcome. It made him feel like he belonged there, like it was his true home.
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Terezi entered the session rather quickly after Karkat and John had, yet since had entered the session no one had spoken to her. She refused to talk to anyone for a short time, and Gamzee said it was probably because she was sad that her lusus had died during the chaos. She had a rather close relationship with her lusus. Most trolls did have a close relationship with their lusus but her relationship with it was something special. So they decided to just give her some space to calm down about the whole situation.
John and Karkat had been exploring the world that they had arrived in. Since Terezi was in charge of building up they had nothing else that they could do until she contacted them. So John told Karkat that they should explore his world. Since they had to still wait for more of their friends to enter the session before more could happen they decided that exploring was a good idea. Once Karkat had agreed they started wandering around the world.
John found the world to be both rather creepy but at the same time intresting. While Karkat just swore on his life that it was using the color of his own blood to taunt him. John didn't agree with that but he didn't argue with the small angry troll. So they explored the world using Johns wind powers to move from island to island over the red blood rivers until they ran in to the world's inhabitants. The first thing that Karkat did was slice the little dudes in half with his sickles. John sighed but didn't attempt to stop his moirail because they quickly found the little guys to be aggressive. Once they had eliminated all the little green guys in their way they continued on their journey.
They didn't stop exploring until they ran in to a little black dude that made John very nervous. John didn't trust the little dude but after Karkat saw the color of the guys' blood and refused to part with him. It made John nervous but he calmed himself down and just let the subject be.
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
Karkat, John, and Terezi were currently sitting on the side of a hill in the land of thought and flow. They had managed to make it to her after she started messaging them again. They were now waiting for Gamzee to finish building up to the portal to his land above Terezi's hive. They had been making their way through the game at a decent speed. Their team had gotten Kanaya in too the session already. Well Eridan was already in on the other team. Karkat had been keeping in contact with Sollux to make sure they knew what was going on. Well John had been talking to Vriska and Eridan a lot since they entered the game. From what they had been told everyone that had entered the session had prototyped their kernel sprite with their dead lusus so far except for Karkat. John had also talked with Eridan a lot since the troll seemed very perturbed about being in a different team than him. He told Eridan not to worry too much about it since they would be together soon.
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
The longer they were in their session and the more they explored the session the more John seemed to remember. Slowly his memories of a life he hadn't known about before was coming back to him. He was remembering faces of people he had cared so much for but now didn't even really know. He didn't remember any names but he knew they were important. While he was thinking he felt Karkat touch his shoulder, "We should get going again we still have a ways to go before we reach the next gate."
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
It had taken quite a long time but everyone had finally gotten in to the game although Sollux died during entry. Sollux was extremely lucky though that Feferi is an amazingly strong person and made it quick enough in to save him. Some of the group had already gotten back together but there was still much that needed to be done. As everyone played more of the game John began to feel more familiar with it until finally his memories had fully returned. They had at first returned slowly yet the second everyone had entered the session all his memories came back.
He hadn't told anyone yet that he knew the truth of who he really was and about what had happened. He couldn't exactly remember how he had become a troll and about why he had been able to go back in time but he was guessing that it had something to do with his time power. He wasn't sure that he even had that strange power anymore. He was the Heir of breath from a different session. One that had been complete hell and for its players was destined to fail from the start. The session had been completely cancerous. Before all of his memories had returned he had been scared for a while. The game had been increasingly becoming harder and he was scared for his friends. Yet now he knew that no matter what happened he could protect them with the strength he gain so long ago. He wouldn't have to worry about himself since he was immortal. Excluding the just or heroic death stuff that he wasn't so sure about, since a lot of his memories were still very foggy even though John understood who he was now.
0-0-0-0-0-0-0-0
John had stayed with his friends for as long as he possibly could. Traveling through the gates 1 by 1, meeting up with more of the group as they traveled to their friends lands 1 by 1. For as long as he possibly could he stayed together traveling with his friends doing what was needed of him during the session. Yet quickly he realized that he needed to leave all of his friends to do what they needed too. He was interfering in how everything was going and soon he understood that he needed to stay out of what they were doing in their session. To keep the integrity of their session and make the timeline stay as similar as possible to the original one he would need to leave. So willingly he made himself completely disappear.
Authors Note: I'm happy so many people care about this story and keep reading. ^_^